Hello Roberto! It's been awhile, I do hope everything is going well for you. I wonder, has anyone tried http://www.linux-ha.org/ ?
-Will On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Roberto Mello <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello-- > > I'm diving into Load Balancing and am weighing Software vs. Hardware > > solutions. Has anyone dealt heavily in Load Balancing, if so, what do > you > > use? We're just needing it for 3 web servers, currently. > > I have an LVS (Linux Virtual Server) setup deployed, and it works very > well. I have two backend web servers running in virtualized containers > (OpenVZ) and the database is replicated. > > My LVS directors (the load balancers themselves) are small machines, > and they can handle thousands of concurrent connections. The web > servers handling the requests are much beefier, closer to your 2950 > specs. > > Someone mentioned Barracuda load balancing hardware appliances and > AFAIK they just slapped a web interface in front of an LVS-enabled > kernel. > > LVS has a learning curve, but it will definitely handle your scenario > well, and inexpensively. The decision to DYI or buy an appliance for > these few web servers (3 isn't much) should be a time/money one, not > much a technology one. > > Roberto > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
